Model of a Wellhead with Roosters
-100–100
- Medium
- Gray earthenware with molded, incised, and stamped decoration
- Dimensions
- 38 × 45.5 × 25.2 cm (14 15/16 × 17 15/16 × 9 15/16 in.)
- Genre
- Earthenware
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
earthenwareceramicsasian artsculptureChinese (culture or style)
About
These jaunty roosters once sat atop a model well in Han-dynasty China. They are perched on the roof, which covered a pulley for raising and lowering buckets. Both the wellhead and the pigsty in the adjacent case resemble objects excavated from a tomb in Huixian, a city in northern China, and they may have come from the same workshop.